I have been using smartphones, for work or personal reasons, for 17 years. In 2003 I remember that I bought the first of them, the Nokia 3650, a monstrosity in the eyes of 2021 with a very strange keyboard and a huge size, especially to have a 2.1-inch screen.
From that moment I was switching between operating systems, and I used models with Windows Mobile, Symbian, Maemo, Android, iOS … but no mobile made the same impression on me as the Nokia N95.
In fact, I talked about this terminal a while ago on the blog, although it did not use Google’s mobile operating system. What’s more, this smartphone was about to be reborn with Android inside.
The feeling of being a perfect mobile
What made such an impression on me about the Nokia N95 was the feeling that it was a perfect mobile in terms of hardware. It had everything that could be asked of it, at least before the iPhone changed what was asked of mobiles.
Using it was completely uncompromising and the photographic experience was above that of its rivals by far.
And that same feeling I had the time I was testing the Huawei P30 Pro about two years ago.
A very balanced mobile
This Huawei flagship offered a body with a large screen but without raising the diagonal or the weight to what we now have as normal, which allowed the use for games but also the use with one hand in a more or less comfortable way.
In the autonomy section, Huawei has always boasted of giving excellent performance and this mobile also offered fast wired charging … and wireless charging, something that even today many brands do not include in their best mobiles.
The screen is true that it did not boast of resolution or high refresh rate (although in 2019 it was not normal either), but it did have OLED technology and a fingerprint sensor in it.
The exterior design led Huawei to achieve what many brands want, for its image to be iconic. And he did that with striking colors, an evolution of what was seen in the Huawei P20 Pro, and a different camera module.
A camera that fell in love
Photograph taken with the Huawei P30 Pro, raw.
But the most memorable thing about the Huawei P30 Pro was its camera. The Chinese company was using its RYYB sensors for the first time, which offered much better texture and image processing than they had before.
Photograph taken with the Huawei P30 Pro, raw.
I remember that this was the cell phone that I carried on my last great trip before the pandemic, one that I made to Prague and Budapest, and there are many photos of that trip that I find great.
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The versatility of that camera, the periscope zoom which even in 2021 many brands do without, allowed me to take photos that, otherwise, would have been impossible for me.
Photograph taken with the 5x periscope zoom of the Huawei P30 Pro, raw.
Special mention to the night mode, which although it was capable of taking photos in total darkness, stood out in less drastic situations, offering incredible detail.
Photograph taken with the night mode of the Huawei P30 Pro, raw.
The wide angle also delivered, especially thanks to a much improved HDR, which was also appreciated in the front camera.
Photograph taken with the wide angle of the Huawei P30 Pro, raw.
Even the portrait mode took advantage of a ToF sensor that today includes the highest category iPhones.
Photograph taken with the Huawei P30 Pro, raw.
Photograph taken with the Huawei P30 Pro, raw.
The zenith of a brand
It is not lost on anyone that the Nokia N95 was the company’s mobile that marked a change of era. In the case of the Finnish company, its sale to Microsoft and its subsequent spin-off from the network division.
In Huawei’s case, the P30 Pro was the last flagship in using Google services and applications, something that makes it the last high-end sold massively in the West.
Currently Huawei is refocusing on other products, such as headphones and watches, where it is ahead of most rivals, but it has it more difficult in the smartphone division.
Few companies have the ability to create a terminal that withstands the passage of time so well and the Huawei P30 Pro is an example of how much the company changed in the second decade of the 21st century, going from being an economical Chinese brand, to a a benchmark among the greats.
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